Thursday, September 29, 2011

DIY! Painting and Designing T's!

I did paint some puffy ghosts and pumpkins
with my son about 5 years ago...

but seriously I will not be blogging about that!

That is about the stiffest article of clothing

(and I use that term loosely)

I have ever seen.

BUT my daughter gave me the perfect opportunity to try it again...the right way! And with the help of DecoArt So Soft Fabric Paint, I think we had SUCCESS!

This is surely not the fabric paint I remembered from my youth. So Soft has a really nice "So Soft" hand when it is dry. It is easy to paint with - and I used a variety of different brushes/items to do just that...and when it dries it feels comfortable and relaxed (yeah no stiff T-shirts!)...and I had fun being creative and coming up with designs.

These designs are my own and I will figure out how to load them here,
so you can print them if you want.

I think my T's turned out awesome!...
And, I may be partial, but I do think my model is awesome too!

I wanted to do something fashion-y but thought my daughter would give me "the stink eye" if it was not pink and fluffy...so I drew a (slightly) fashion looking drawing of a ballerina. I decided to paint this in all pinks other than the hair. Just because - it is a design thing.

The surfer was from a previous project as was the flower. The surfer called for bold colors and I wanted to try something light, soft, and blended for the flower.

Place it!

Determine the placement.

Paint it!

Surfer

Flower

So, what do ya think?

Ready to try your hand at fabric painting!?

I am making some towel and placemats too!

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That's pretty amazing! Love the flowered shirt! I toyed with the idea this summer of creating a line of custom shirts--add that to the list of things good intentions :) Just thought I'd stop in and say hi. I gave up blogging for awhile but I missed it and came back. Glad to see all is well here :)

These are so awesome!!! The ballerina is my favorite and I want my Luci to have it SO BADLY!! You are amazing when it comes to free hand design. Geeze. So talented Holly! And you are right...your model is a dolly!!

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